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Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA)
Circulars

CONQUAS Requirement for Housing Developers

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Controller of Housing

18 November 2019

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Circular No : URA/COH/Circular-2019-02, BCA/QCD/Circular 02/2019

Our Ref : URA/COH/Circular, BCA ID 88.2.7

CIRCULAR TO PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTES

Who Should Know:
Developers and solicitors (Law Society)

Effective Date:
With effect from 18 Nov 2019

  1. To enhance protection of home buyers’ interest by ensuring that developers deliver quality housing to home buyers, the requirement for Construction Quality Assessment System (CONQUAS) Scheme will be imposed via a new licence condition in the housing developer’s licence issued to developers with:

    • no CONQUAS track record for private residential development in the past 3 years, or

    • at least one private residential development in the past 3 years with CONQUAS score below the threshold CONQUAS score1, or

    • at least one private residential development in the past 3 years with significant number of major defects2.

  2. In assessing whether the developer will be subject to the CONQUAS requirement, the CONQUAS track record and quality of private residential development which involved the developer, any of its shareholders, and related corporation3 of the shareholders will be considered.

  3. CONQUAS was launched in 1989 to provide the industry with a standard assessment framework for benchmarking of workmanship quality. CONQUAS is an existing requirement for new building projects constructed on Government Land Sales (GLS) sites and public sector building projects with contract value above $5 million. It has helped to raise construction workmanship standards in the industry.

  4. Please refer toAnnex A for the list of frequently asked questions on the CONQUAS scheme and housing developer’s licence application.

  5. We would appreciate it if you could convey the contents of this circular to the relevant members of your organisation. If you or your members have any feedback or queries concerning this circular, you may contact us via email:

  For feedback or queries relating to housing developer’s licence

ura_coh_registry@ura.gov.sg

  For feedback or queries relating to CONQUAS

linn_naing_win@bca.gov.sg

Thank You.

LING HUI LIN (MS)
CONTROLLER OF HOUSING
URBAN REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY


ANG LIAN AIK
GROUP DIRECTOR
CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTIVITY & QUALITY
BUILDING AND CONTRUCTION AUTHORITY

1 The threshold CONQUAS score is set at the bottom 10th percentile of industry average CONQUAS score for private residential projects in the preceding year. Details on the latest CONQUAS Scheme and the threshold CONQUAS score can be found at https://www1.bca.gov.sg/buildsg/quality/conquas.

2 Major defects refer to defects that would generally not be acceptable to end-users as specified in BCA’s Construction Quality Assessment System (CONQUAS).

3 Related corporation is as defined in Section 6 of the Companies Act (Cap 50)

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